7-year-old Louisiana girl mauled to death in yard by neighbor's pitbull - New York Post

A 7-year-old Louisiana miss was mauled to decease by a neighbor’s pitbull that ran into her family’s yard, authorities said.

Sadie Davila was playing extracurricular the East Baton Rouge Parish location astatine 6:30 p.m. Friday erstwhile the canine barreled onto the spot and “viciously attacked her,” according to apprehension documents obtained by the Advocate.

A household subordinate tried to ward disconnected the canine by hitting it with a walking cane, but the carnal couldn’t beryllium deterred.

The first-grader was taken to the infirmary with aggregate canine bites to her look and terrible skull damage. She aboriginal succumbed to her injuries, constabulary said.

“My baby. She is lone 7 years old. My mini me. The airy successful my heart. Words don’t beryllium for what this feeling is. My household is shattered. Please commune for us. Pray they property charges connected the dog’s owners & clasp them responsible,” Sadie’s mother, Haley Anselmo, wrote connected Facebook.

“RIP my saccharine Sadie Elizabeth, 7-years-old & taken from america successful the astir convulsive way. The satellite is simply a cruel place. You were the airy successful my heart,” her father, Mikey Davila, wrote successful an Instagram story.

Sadie’s mother, Haley Anselmo, said her daughter’s decease has near the household shattered.Facebook / Haley Anselmo

Sadie’s school, Woodlawn Elementary, remembered her arsenic a young miss “blossoming successful the
dawn of her life.”

“Sadie was fierce and spunky, but she was besides tender hearted and kind,” her teacher, Grace Feucht, said successful a statement. “She brought vigor and joyousness into my people each azygous clip she stepped successful the door. She was fearless and would sing her bosom retired successful beforehand of her classmates.”

Investigators recovered the canine aft the incidental with humor astir its look and mouth, the affidavit states. A “substantial” magnitude of humor was recovered successful Sadie’s yard.

Mikey Davila said his girl was the airy successful his heart.Facebook / Mikey Davila

The canine was euthanized the nighttime of the killing, the city’s carnal power manager told the Advocate.

The dog’s owner, Erick Lopez, told officers helium wasn’t location during the onslaught and regularly lets the canine roam the vicinity unrestrained. The 20-year-old’s home, astir 150 yards from wherever Sadie was killed, is not surrounded by gates oregon fences, the documents noted.

Lopez was charged Saturday with negligent homicide for failing to confine oregon restrain the animal.